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fijiaarone··on Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
Pay 1 devops engineer 10% more and you'll get more than twice the benefit of 2 average engineers.
fijiaarone··on Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
The dirty secret of Docker is almost every docker container deployed is actually a VM, not just a container.
fijiaarone··on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
Close, it’s fiction. Reads more like Shiner than Gibson.
fijiaarone··on Flapping-wing robot achieves self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms
Robots aren’t real.
fijiaarone··on Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
At least it’s not npm. Or cargo.
fijiaarone··on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
Would profiting from these deals make your struggle a little less difficult?
fijiaarone··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
Nobody in the market cares because everyone in the market are cheaters. There is a huge untapped potential of people outside the current market that do not participate because they know the market is rigged against them.

A fair market could be huge, but the trick is keeping it fair. It used to be more fair, and we used to have a healthier economy because of it.

It’s not like most of the unfairness in the current market couldn’t be dealt with, probably with laws already on the books. Most HFT strategies are not only blatantly dishonest but also clearly illegal. The government looks the other way though, because corruption.

fijiaarone··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
What info needed to be destroyed and who did it implicate?
fijiaarone··on Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
Science makes itself look dumb compared to creationism.
fijiaarone··on Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure
Microsoft copilot is literally just Cortana. Which they were forced to remove by users.
fijiaarone··on CSS Unit Might Be a Combination
Tailwind is the solution to CSS
fijiaarone··on F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]
Nothing screams "future proof" like WASM.
fijiaarone··on Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying
The advertising industry relies on ads being ineffective. That way you have spend more on them.
fijiaarone··on Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying
I don’t know what an example is.
fijiaarone··on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
If it doesn’t fully implement SOAP, what’s the point?

Feels like a spinning hammer meant to drive screws because somebody has never seen a drill before.

fijiaarone··on Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students
Entrepreneurship isn’t getting showered with millions for doing nothing other than being accepted as a part of the blessed elite and access to an infinite spigot of free money when all other sources have been dammed off and diverted to the ever shrinking minority of ever increasing ultra-wealth.
fijiaarone··on Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
The concept of MESH sits somewhere between course grain components and server islands.

React is for fine grain components and HTMX is for lightweight interactivity — update part of a page.

The classic React use case is an editable, filterable drop down. The classic HTMX use case is click a button and load some text.

The overlap comes in the middle, with a simple form validation. React says make each field a component that handles its own validation and error messages. HTMX says just return a re-rendered form with the error messages. MESH says make the form a component with its own endpoint.

fijiaarone··on Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
React is not huge. It’s just a library that converts strings to tags. Oh you want to use React? You want JSX — the only use case for the React library? You want routing and URLs and history and state management and … ok you don’t want a virtual DOM but you need it. And you need Babel and a build tool and a generator framework (because piecing it all together is too hard) and tree shaking and CSS (in JS!) and lots of weird and complex lifecycle hooks.

React is both bigger (in terms of bytes) and more complex than Angular.

So, to answer your question, React is more complex than just about everything. I’d like to see you find a more complex framework.

fijiaarone··on FusionAuth vs. MS Entra – what I learned when implementing auth
Nice writeup. Have you tried any other solutions?
fijiaarone··on I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Store using my story
There are two problems: 1. The Apple monopoly. They don’t have to care about indie devs because they own the market and are above the law. 2. Global marketplace. You can’t sue a nameless company in India for copyright infringement.
fijiaarone··on Should we drain the Everglades?
Everything from Miami to Ft. Myers was the Everglades.
fijiaarone··on Should we drain the Everglades?
How do you feel about Holland?
fijiaarone··on Turn MEP prompts into AutoCAD drawings in minutes
I’ve worked with a lot of builders and engineers who swear the architect must have been hallucinating and question whether having ChatGpt produce the drawings would be any worse.
fijiaarone··on Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes
Munchies joke?
fijiaarone··on The Titania Programming Language
A modest proposal…

Instead of having println() or it’s equivalent in your programming language, add a new special character that denotes a newline after a string:

print(“Hello world”.)

fijiaarone··on Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
Or you tariff work done offshore and work done by foreigners onshore. We do that for manufacturing and agriculture, why not tech?
fijiaarone··on Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
That’s extremely racist to assume that Indian execs are all D tier or worse.
fijiaarone··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
Nobody would invest $50 million to enter a trillion dollar market.
fijiaarone··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
Monopolists always talk about the tragedy of the commons, but don’t see anything wrong with the tragedy of the monopoly and don’t want you to think anything can exist in between.
fijiaarone··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
We’ve got a solution to that.

What makes you think you can own hardware, you fascist capitalist pig dog!

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